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((Infobox archives
| name                    = Hessian Central State Archives
| image                   = [[File:Coat of arms of Hesse.svg|center|140px]]
| director                = Nicola Wurthmann
| employees               = ca. 70
| country                 = Germany
| subdivision title       = State
| subdivision             = [[Hesse]]
| city                    = [[Wiesbaden]]
| address                 = Mosbacher Str. 55, 65187
| site                    = [https://landesarchiv.hessen.de Hessian State Archives]))

The '''Hessian Central State Archives, Wiesbaden''' (''Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden'' in German) is a department of the [[:de:Hessisches Landesarchiv|Hessian State Archives]] and is located in [[Wiesbaden]], the capital of the [[Germany|German]] state of [[Hesse]].<ref>((citation|periodical=[[:de:Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt für das Land Hessen|Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt für das Land Hessen]]|title=Gesetz zur Neuregelung des Archivwesens und des Pflichtexemplarrechts|issue=24|year=2012|at=pp. 458–463|issn=0342-3557|date=2012|language=German|url=https://www.rv.hessenrecht.hessen.de/bshe/document/VB-HE-AD-GVBl2012-24-458
))</ref> It serves alongside the [[:de:Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt|Hessian State Archives, Darmstadt]] and the [[Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg|Hessian State Archives, Marburg]] as the main regional archives for Hesse and additionally functions as the central archives for the state government and ministries, as well as other institutions with nationwide jurisdiction.

== Name ==
The archives have been renamed several times:
* until 1945: ''Prussian State Archives, Wiesbaden''
* until 1958: ''State Archives, Wiesbaden''
* until 1963: ''Central State Archives, Wiesbaden''
* since 1963: ''Hessian Central State Archives''

== History ==
[[File:Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden.jpg|thumb|The Hessian State Archives in Wiesbaden]]
[[File:Siegelmarke Königlich Preussisches Staatsarchiv - Wiesbaden W0246301.jpg|thumb|[[Seal (emblem) | Seal]] of the Royal Prussian State Archives – Wiesbaden]]
The Hessian Central State Archives originated as the archives of the [[Grafschaft|counties]] and [[principalities]] held by the [[House of Nassau]]. With the entry of the princes of the [[Nassau-Usingen]] and [[Nassau-Weilburg]] [[cadet branches]] to the [[Confederation of the Rhine]] in 1806, the [[Duchy of Nassau]] was formed, with Wiesbaden serving as its capital. This reordering of the governing structure resulted in a fundamental reorganization of the existing archives as well. The old government archives of Nassau-Usingen, located in [[Idstein Castle]], were given the additional function of the central archives of the duchy, which collected the historical archive holdings of the former principalities of [[:de:Nassau-Idstein|Nassau-Idstein]] and Nassau-Usingen. It oversaw archives in [[Weilburg]], [[Dillenburg]], and [[Hachenburg]]. The archives of over twenty spiritual and secular territories formally belonging to the principalities of Nassau, which had been dissolved by the [[Reichsdeputationshauptschluss|Imperial Recess of 1803]], were transferred to the new central archives.

The [[:de:Preußische Annexionen 1866|annexation]] of the Duchy of Nassau by [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] after the [[Austro-Prussian War]] in 1866 led to another administrative reorganization. The duchy was included in the Prussian administrative region of [[Wiesbaden (region)|Wiesbaden]] along with the former [[Free City of Frankfurt]]. In 1881, in order to accommodate the resulting surge of archival materials, the Prussian Archive Administration commissioned a new building to house the archives on [[Mainzer Straße (Wiesbaden)|Mainzer Straße]] in Wiesbaden. This archive building, which was extended in 1908/1909 by the addition of a repository building, survived [[World War II]] largely unscathed, and after the founding of the [[State of Hesse]] in 1945, became one of the three Hessian state archives. It remained responsible for the administrative region of Wiesbaden, and even after the dissolution of the administrative region in 1968, the Central State Archives has continued to supervise the archives of the subordinate governmental departments of its former territory. In addition, after the founding of the State of Hesse, the State Archives, Wiesbaden was given the function of the archives for the central offices and institutions of the state, which is where the designation ''Central State Archives'' derives.

== Directors ==
* 1840–1853 [[Friedrich Traugott Friedemann]]
* 1866–1872 [[:de:Karl Rossel|Karl Rossel]]

* 1878–1896 [[:de:Wilhelm Sauer (Archivar)|Wilhelm Sauer]]
* 1897–1921 [[:de:Paul Wagner (Archivar)|Paul Wagner]]
* 1921–1931 [[:de:Max Eugen Domarus]]
* 1933–1938 [[:de:Rudolf Vaupel|Rudolf Vaupel]]

* 1947–1961 [[:de:Georg Wilhelm Sante|Georg Wilhelm Sante]]
* 1961–1970 [[:De:Otto Renkhoff|Otto Renkhoff]]
* 1971–1976 [[Wolf-Heino Struck]]
* 1976–1995 [[:de:Wolf-Arno Kropat|Wolf-Arno Kropat]]
* 1996–1999 [[:de:Winfried Schüler|Winfried Schüler]]
* 1999–2014 [[:de:Klaus Eiler|Klaus Eiler]]
* 2014–2019 [[:de:Volker Eichler|Volker Eichler]]
* 2019–present: Nicola Wurthmann<ref>[https://landesarchiv.hessen.de/amsteinfuehrung_wurthmann_hhstaw Announcement of the inauguration at the website of the Hessian State Archives].</ref>

== Collections ==
The collections are divided into six groups:
* ''[[Holy Roman Empire]]''
* ''Duchy of Nassau''
* ''Prussia''
* ''State of Hesse''
* ''Collections Not of State Governmental Origin'' (municipalities, political parties, associations, other organizations, as well as individuals)
* ''Special Collections'' (real estate documents, [[vital records]] and [[demographic]] documents, manuscripts and [[cartulary]], [[printing|print]]ed materials, maps, [[site plan|plans]], audio and visual materials, cultural history collections, as well as documentation)

=== Historical Collections ===
The historical collections include:
* House Archives and Traditions of the [[House of Orange-Nassau]]
* Counties and Principalities of Nassau
* County of [[Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hachenburg]] and Other Domains.
* [[Duchy of Nassau]]
* [[Free City of Frankfurt]]
* [[Landgrave|Landgraviate]] of [[Hesse-Homburg]]
* [[Province of Hesse-Nassau]]
* Administrative Region of [[Wiesbaden (region)|Wiesbaden]] (with [[Montabaur]] and [[Rhein-Lahn-Kreis]] [since 1945])
* Archives of monasteries acquired through [[Secularization (church property)|secularization]]:
** [[Arnstein Abbey]]
** [[Eberbach Abbey]]
** [[Marienstatt Abbey]]
** [[Limburg Cathedral]]
* Partial archives acquired by the former Duchy of Nassau
** [[Diocese of Mainz]]
** [[Diocese of Trier]]
* Family archives, for example:
** The [[:de:Dunger|Dungers]],
** [[:de:Marschall von Bieberstein|Marschall von Bieberstein]]
* Archives of the [[Reichskammergericht]]

=== New additions ===
The Hessian Central State Archives has dual responsibilities:
* It is tasked with the acquisition of historically significant documents from Hessian ministries as well as all government offices, courts, and state facilities for the entire state of Hesse. In this function, it also maintains interim archives for written materials that are still subject to a regulatory [[retention period]].
* As  regional archives it is, like the other two Hessian State Archives in [[Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg|Marburg]] and [[:de:Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt|Darmstadt]], responsible for the archival materials of the subordinate state departments in the [[Independent_city#Germany|independent cities]] of [[Frankfurt]] and [[Wiesbaden]], as well as the [[Districts of Germany|districts]] of [[Hochtaunuskreis]], [[Lahn-Dill-Kreis]], [[Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg]], [[Main-Kinzig-Kreis]], [[Main-Taunus-Kreis]], and [[Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis]].<ref>((citation|surname1=[[:de:Franz-Josef Sehr|Franz-Josef Sehr]]|editor-surname1= Der Kreisausschuss des Landkreises Limburg-Weilburg|periodical=Jahrbuch für den Kreis Limburg-Weilburg 2021|title=Vor 50 Jahren: Entstehung der Gemeinde Beselich|publication-place=Limburg|at=pp.&nbsp;41–48|isbn=978-3-927006-58-4|date=2020|language=German
))</ref>

In addition to the archives from the registries of state offices and ecclesiastical institutions, the Hessian Central State Archives also holds documents of non-governmental origin, such as political parties and associations, as well as the ''[[Nachlass|nachlässe]]'' of scientists, people from contemporary history, and politicians. For example, the archives contain materials from [[Karl Geiler]], [[:de:Erwin Stein (Richter)|Erwin Stein]] and [[Heinrich Troeger]].

=== Scope ===
Currently the Hessian Central State Archives holds materials with the following scope:
* 65,004 documents from the years 910 until ca. 1850
* ca. 50 shelf-kilometers of official files and records, [[Urbarium|urbaria]], [[:de:Protokoll (Niederschrift)|protocol records]], [[invoice]]s and [[cadastre]]s (from the 15th century)
* ca. 196,000 [[map]]s, [[site plan|plans]] and [[poster]]s
* ca. 261,000 drawings and photographs
* A library with over 100,000 volumes

== Additional functions ==
The headquarters of the Hessian Central State Archives, Wiesbaden also houses other central functions for the [[:de:Hessische Landesarchiv|Hessian State Archives]]:
* Filming of historically valuable archival material related to Hesse on behalf of the [[Federalism_in_Germany|federal government]]
* Leading in the development and operation of modern archival information technologies, such as the Arcinsys archival information system<ref>[https://arcinsys.hessen.de/ Arcinsys Database].</ref>
* Digital Archives Hesse, which collects digital archival materials that are "born digital" (since the end of 2009)
* Central Press and Public Relations (publication of ''[[:de:Archivnachrichten aus Hessen|Archivnachrichten aus Hessen]]'' and other communications services for the Hessian State Archives, such as maintenance of the official website)

== Building ==
The absorption of archives and registries from dissolved government entities in the [[post-war era]] and the acquisition of new written materials from the central state offices quickly overwhelmed the storage capacity of the archives. Between 1981 and 1985, a new building was built on Mosbacher Straße in [[Wiesbaden]], reflecting the latest in archival technology. Even today it is considered an exemplary archival building with a capacity of around 70 linear km of archival materials. The old 19th-century archives building on [[Mainzer Straße]] was demolished after the move.

== References ==
<small> Alphabetically ordered by author/publisher </small>
* Klaus Eiler: ''200 Jahre Zentralarchiv''. In: ''[[:de:Archivnachrichten aus Hessen|Archivnachrichten aus Hessen]]'' 16/2 (2016), pp. 27–29.
* Carl Christian Wahrmann: ''Der Weg der Akten. Das Herzogliche Hausarchiv und seine Übergabe an ds Staatsarchiv Wiesbaden''. In: ''Archivnachrichten aus Hessen'' 18/1 (2018), pp. 50–55.
* [[:de:Winfried Schüler|Winfried Schüler]]: ''25-jähriges Neubaujubiläum des Hessischen Hauptstaatsarchivs – Rückblick eines Beteiligten''. In: ''Archivnachrichten aus Hessen'' 1 (2010), pp. 15–17.

== External links ==
((Commonscat|Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv))
* [https://landesarchiv.hessen.de Website of the Hessian Central State Archives]
* [https://landesarchiv.hessen.de/publikationen/taetigkeitsberichte Activity Report of the Hessian State Archives]
** ((HessBib PPN|116389494))

== Notes ==
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